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The Failure of Noise
The Failure of Sound
The Failure of Rock
The Failure of the Avant Garde
The Failure of the Space Age
The Failure of Jazz
The Failure of Psychedelia
The Failure of Krautrock
The Failure of Electronic
The Failure of Pop
The Failure of Free-form
The Failure of the 20th Century

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Koivistolaiset  Jättiläinen (Mr. Giant Man)   Favoriting   0:00:00 (Pop-up)
 
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Factoria  Screams   Favoriting Heroine  0:39:26 (Pop-up)
 
Ignatz  Hurling Incense   Favoriting Ignatz II  0:58:19 (Pop-up)
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Bill Orcutt  Sad News from Korea   Favoriting A New Way To Pay Old Debts  1:39:09 (Pop-up)
Rolan Vega  Guitav   Favoriting Documentary  1:39:33 (Pop-up)
 
Alejandro Jodorowsky, Ronald Frangipane, and Don Cherry  Fuck Machine   Favoriting The Holy Mountain OST  2:30:08 (Pop-up)
 
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Listener comments!

Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:05pm
Ken:

I entered a period into Fabio's playlist to activate it.
Avatar 3:05pm
V Priceless:

Hey Fabio! Hey William! Hey All! We will NOT fail today! Woo!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:06pm
DCE:

good work Ken! Fabio vs the world, round 1
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:06pm
Ike:

Groovy, Ken.

Wm. Berger is going to have to work hard to be as hilarious as he was w/Herweg the other night.
  3:06pm
cory:

Failing at work today
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Cecile:

hola!
  3:07pm
r i s k y:

"."
  3:07pm
JakeGould:

Yeah, what Ike said… The Bro-mance between Berger and Herweg the other night was “They need a show together!”-worthy.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:07pm
Caryn:

Oh look, Giant Man sung by Koivistolaiset, with the lead sung by Kai Lind. Kai Lind's best known band here, with Lind doing the lead: www.youtube.com...
  3:08pm
r i s k y:

Funrazor
  3:09pm
Bronwyn C.:

Wlm. Berger's show and Fabio's show were my dual gateway shows to WFMU, back in ... 1985? That's worth my pledge, for sure!
Avatar 3:10pm
Cecile:

caryn, I probably went to school with some 3-cousins once removed of them in the UP.
  3:12pm
Marc:

No Clay Pigeon as co-host? :(
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Cecile:

you can read my damn name.
  3:12pm
Phillip in Brooklyn (48 years old):

Now your talking! Fabio and William Burger!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:13pm
dale:

marc - no jazz cigarettes during this all important time.
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steve:

Marc - Clay's joining Fabio next week
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:14pm
Ike:

Awesome, Bronwyn C. These guys were early shows for me too, in 1993, though my original gateway was Dave Mandl. BTW, I wish I could hear some Truckstop Tea Party archives since that was before my time.
  3:14pm
joe:

@ bronwyn c you were mine
Avatar 3:15pm
d¢ pät:

SMKen was mine--he had me at "YOU ARE MEDDLING WITH THE PRIMAL ORDER OF NATURE, SCOTT WILLIAMS!!!!"
  3:16pm
Phillip in Brooklyn (48 years old):

I have been listening to Fabio and tony colter for almost 25 years. I miss William burger on Sunday's after midnight
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:16pm
dale:

de nada fabio. one of the best three hours on the telefunken.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:16pm
DCE:

Wyoming is desolate and beautiful, and there are geysers in the northwest!
Avatar 3:16pm
Cecile:

Would you be a Midianite?
  3:16pm
joe:

yes old faithful is in Wy
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mushroomjesus:

kuln
  3:17pm
Tony:

Yes the geysers are in Yellowstone, which is mostly in WY. Went there last year for the first time and it was amazing. Everyone should see that at least once in their lifetime.
  3:18pm
P-90:

@ Bronwyn C: Those are some good "gateways".
  3:19pm
ted:

that was an AMAZING Scottish accent Fabio
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Cecile:

I like them both.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:21pm
dale:

i was listening to novalis and jane yesterday. old krautrock is der best
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sphere:

hello all. Fabio is naming folks who assigned part of their Swag For Life pledge to him. very nice!
  3:21pm
joe:

Salem is capital...come on I'm fact checking instead of answering phones.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 3:21pm
chris:

ja, dale!
  3:21pm
Bronwyn C.:

@joe: <3 !
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:22pm
Polyus:

How did Fabio manage to pick Stacy Lattisaw out of the air?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:23pm
Ken:

My gateway shows: the Vanilla Bean, Jim Price and Irwin. My anti-gateway show was JM in the AM then called the Hebrew and Jewish Program. Whenever it came on, I became convinced that I had imagined this amazing radio at 91.1.
  3:23pm
JakeGould:

“The Grand Wizard of Wrestling” en.wikipedia.org...
  3:23pm
P-90:

CAN! funny, I was just having a chat with a music journalist friend of mine yesterday, he was a very early champion of Can, I was saying that as diverse as the programming and tastes of the listeners of WFMU are, Can stands out as an across-the-board favorite.
  3:23pm
Bronwyn C.:

Fabio and Wlm. Berger doing some Sportsy Talking!
  3:23pm
Phillip in Brooklyn (48 years old):

Hey I remember the grand wizard! And Ivan putski the polish power
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Cecile:

the Iron Sheik! Baron von Raschke!
  3:23pm
Dean:

Novalis and Jane. That brings back memories. Eloy, Release Music Orchestra, and (not Kraut, but good prog) Secret Oyster.
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d¢ pät:

remember when we use to call football "soccer"??? Hahaha, what a joke.
  3:25pm
Phillip in Brooklyn (48 years old):

Jimmy super fly Snuka
George the animal Steele
The mad Samoans
  3:26pm
P-90:

I LiKE the term "vinyl player", it's cool.
  3:26pm
JakeGould:

Is there a way to check out the program grids from like 1992 to 1995? Those were the years I first got into the station. No specific shows I can recall.
Avatar 3:27pm
mushroomjesus:

Saw Gary Wilson last year in Austin. Creepy show.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:27pm
dale:

sometimes i still think i need to turn the tv on five minutes before a show so the set warms up.
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Cecile:

we used to call our former crappy record player the vinyl grinder.
  3:28pm
Phillip in Brooklyn (48 years old):

@jakegould I found wfmu way way back in 1987 greatest discovery I eve made on radio.
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steve:

yayyy Gary Wilson
  3:28pm
Dean:

Dude is singing about this: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQno7CqfdD4sAoOPn2SgFJIb64bAgq8zJu3nogNrCIQ1YdmYZDIvg
  3:28pm
Ralphine:

The first Thunk Tank and Glen Jones were the first WFMU shows I heard. I AltaVista-ed WFMU after I read about it in the New York Times. So I owe it all to the Times.
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Cecile:

I knew about FMU since the mid-80s when Rob Weisberg wrote me about it. But I didn't start listening frequently until 2004 on the intertubes.
  3:28pm
Phillip in Brooklyn (48 years old):

I remember when they were part of Uppsala College
  3:29pm
joe:

the original sheik.
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Cecile:

Diane, Joe Belock and Brian Turner were my gateway shows.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:29pm
Ike:

@Jake, some of those grids are in old issues of LCD that are floating around at the station. One time when I was volunteering, I showed one of the grids to Bronwyn and she found it really hilarious for some reason that I can't remember now.
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steve:

i think i first discovered The Best Show and the Ed Shepp Radio Experiment (early/mid 2000s?) but Fabio and Bryce were my early (and still) favs
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YETI BOB:

this show is SO educational!
  3:31pm
Phillip in Brooklyn (48 years old):

Does anyone remember Hova
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 3:31pm
chris:

pronounced "skwim", i believe
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d¢ pät:

DYLAN was WELSH!!
  3:32pm
JakeGould:

1992 was the year I moved to my own place in Park Slope so I could properly pick up WFMU. Prior to that I lived in Brighton Beach and could only sporadically pick it up. Did have clear access to Kingsborough Community College radio which I barely remember listening to. And WBAI was sane and solvent back then.
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d¢ pät:

joke.
  3:33pm
JakeGould:

In 1992 it always seemed weird to me that Upsala College would have a station like WFMU. But hey, I never heard of Upsala College before WFMU so what do I know?
  3:33pm
Phillip in Brooklyn (48 years old):

Tony Coulter and Pat Duncan on Thursdays with live in studio bands
  3:33pm
Dean:

Skimming a compilation of LCD work published in 2008 via Amazon "Look Inside," I see Ellery Eskelin and Nick Tosches wrote for it.
  3:33pm
P-90:

@Cecile: I listened in the 80's too, at that time FMU was aert of a trio of college stations, along with WKCR and WFUV, that were almost the only alternatives to commercial programming (the less said about WBAI, the better.) But the station didn't yet have its 'identity" as we know it today, that came in the early 90's, as noted by others above.
  3:34pm
Ken Weaver:

MY TWO FAVORITE DJs. ON TOGETHER!!! Hope you got my pledge, love ya' Guys!
  3:35pm
Bronwyn C.:

If I hadn't already pledged, I would pledge just for Wlm. Berger saying "Das Widget"!
  3:36pm
JakeGould:

FWIW, WBAI back in the 1980s/early-1990s was tolerable for a few shows. But only a few. A few. A small number.
  3:36pm
GGG:

don't forget WNYU as a premier college radio alternative in NYC area, especially during those 90s years.
  3:36pm
Walt:

The black with rainbow color sticker resembles the Brunswick label frim the 1950s-1960s. Brunswick was a Decca subsidiary, though.
  3:36pm
Phillip in Brooklyn (48 years old):

I remember so far back in WFMU that they use to cover the Uppsala college basketball team on their airwaves
  3:36pm
joe:

I think there maybe some in the best of lcd which is available as a warehouse pick for a mouse of today or more.
  3:37pm
GGG:

love seeing all the Pat Duncan reminiscences too, miss his show and all the live bands.
  3:37pm
JakeGould:

Regular chickens www.youtube.com...
  3:38pm
Bronwyn C.:

@Ralphine: The idea that you discovered Thunk Tank via the NYTimes is making my head explode.
  3:39pm
Robert:

Many's the time I've been the only one in the theater laughing at a point in a movie or play. Once I had people in the row in front of me turn & glare at me.
  3:39pm
Phillip in Brooklyn (48 years old):

@jakegould I use to listen to WBAI as well. And they did have some shows worth listening to like sounds of the city with Dennis Coleman and carrier wave with Sydney Smith
  3:39pm
Phillip in Brooklyn (48 years old):

Earth watch with Robert knight
  3:39pm
r i s k y:

"I wasn't in an altered state... My state is New Jersey". Fucking Fantastic, Wm.
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mushroomjesus:

I laughed at the end of Titanic in the theater. I thought I was going to get mobbed.
  3:40pm
P-90:

@Ralphine & Bronwyn: I'm really thrown by that NY Times/WFMU "gateway" story too
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:41pm
Caryn:

@mushroomjesus: well, that whole movie is such ridiculous trash that laughter is the only sensible response.
  3:42pm
JakeGould:

I actually still like some WBAI shows and the hosts seem nice. But I stopped listening to them a few years back after realizing I should have stopped listening to them even further back. The toxicity of WBAI makes the hosts just sound like they are constantly under siege. Not naming specific shows because I don’t even want to touch that.
  3:42pm
Ken Weaver:

WOW, LOVE THIS TRACK!!!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:44pm
DCE:

keep screaming!
  3:44pm
JakeGould:

Which is to say, blah blah… I give WFMU my money and support. And a hug if it needs it.
  3:44pm
P-90:

Wbai was fun in the 60's and 70's. After that: decline, decline, decline.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:45pm
dale:

wsou in staten island is good if you're a metal head
  3:45pm
Phillip in Brooklyn (48 years old):

@jakegould in my misspent youth I listened to WBAI non stop in the 80's I know who your talking about. Those toxic hosts drove me away from WBAI in 88-89
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:45pm
Caryn:

The "only some people laugh" thing at movies reminds me of how John Waters said he could look at an audience watching one of his early movies and tell at certain points who in the audience were gay and who were not, because all the gay people would laugh at a specific line and the others wouldn't. I've seen that idea in action only once at a screening of You Can't Stop The Music during Gay Pride Week.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:46pm
Andrew Waterloo:

Thanks to noise cancelling headphones I forgot I was in a room full of people when I burst out laughing at eraserhead dialogue.
  3:46pm
Phillip in Brooklyn (48 years old):

WNYU was the place for INDIE
WSOU was the home of metal or hair bands is what they call it today
  3:46pm
Ralphine:

I only clicked on a link to listen to a Thunk Tank sample because the name of the show struck me funny, and the link to a sample of Jones and Burns said they were a couple of Jersey fat boys.
Avatar 3:47pm
mushroomjesus:

Failure to Forgive
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kimgland:

halbe maus spende
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:47pm
DCE:

haha, damn! I have great luck with these!
  3:48pm
JakeGould:

WLIR and WDRE for me in JHS/HS in the 1980s.
  3:50pm
Phillip in Brooklyn (48 years old):

@jakegould I couldn't get WLIR too clearly even on my Sony ghetto blaster
  3:51pm
JakeGould:

One of the benefits of being in Brighton Beach near Coney Island back then was clear Long Island signals. That and the knishes, boardwalk & skee ball.
  3:51pm
BriJet:

Hello!!!
  3:51pm
Phillip in Brooklyn (48 years old):

I hate commercials with a passion! Which is why I'll always be a listener 4 life to wfmu and the others left of the dial
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:56pm
Tome:

this is great
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:56pm
Caryn:

Ignatz II - Electric Boogaloo?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:56pm
DCE:

haha
  3:57pm
Phillip in Brooklyn (48 years old):

Does anyone remember when we had 2 classical music stations on the dial?
WQXR and WNCN
  3:58pm
Walt:

No love for the Kochs here, but in 2008 David H. Koch gave $100 million to renovate the New York State Theater at Lincoln Center for ballet and opera. It's now the Koch Theater.
  3:59pm
Robert:

When I moved into this apt. in 1986 & couldn't get WFMU unless I went outside, I too listened to a good deal of WLIR/WDRE/WLIR.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:59pm
common:

Fabio!
  4:01pm
Mark Williams:

my fourth pledge this Fundraiser, because I've slacked too much in recent years. For a variety of reasons, I was reminded of why a station like this matters to me, and a person like Fabio especially. Long live WFMU.
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V Priceless:

this just in: NASA confirms there's hydrothermal activity, i.e. an ocean, on Jupiter's moon, Ganymede (100 miles below the surface). It also has a thin, but oxygen-rich, atmosphere, apparently. My browser not allowing me to copy and paste link here.
  4:02pm
Phillip in Brooklyn (48 years old):

@robert I had to constantly re arrange my stereos wire antenna hanging on the wall to listen to this and the other college stations it looked like a piece of artwork it was so twisted into many shapes
  4:03pm
assaf:

Tried to call but lines were busy, so went straight to pledge page
donated $100
keep on failing Fab
you're FABULOUS
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:04pm
Caryn:

@VP: interesting. I assume the liquid ocean is there for the same reason as there's one on Europa: the "kneading" effect Jupiter has during the moon's orbit.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:04pm
DCE:

let's all move to Ganymede!
  4:06pm
Ralphine:

I can't swim.
  4:08pm
Phillip in Brooklyn (48 years old):

My castle of quiet strength through failure
  4:08pm
Tony:

What's the goal for this show?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:09pm
DCE:

@ Tony, success
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:10pm
Caryn:

Of course, the thin oxygen layer and oceans were known about before, but the layering of the ocean is a new discovery.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:11pm
coelacanth:

olá Fabio and failing comrades
  4:12pm
Tony:

@DCE: Well they've already made the goal then!
  4:12pm
Ike, food nerd:

Really more Iselin and Edison than Metuchen
  4:12pm
Dean:

Props to Mr. Berger for playing Gidim's cassette two or three weeks ago. I contacted the "band" (one guy in Chicago), and bought the cassette. He also burned a CD for me. It's a terrific twelve minutes.
  4:14pm
Phillip in Brooklyn (48 years old):

I'm sure a movie maker will make a movie about NASA sending a probe to Ganymead drilling into the ice and bringing back a sample of the ocean, and then the probe explodes in earths atmosphere and turned everyone on earth into ZOMBIES!!!
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βrian:

@coelacanth: Cicadian Rhythms! Nice. Is that a wood thrush at the beginning?
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βrian:

Irwin's right about the musical neurosis thing. I can't stand to read about music, and that's why I'm glad for WFMU.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:16pm
Polyus:

There is a movie about a manned expedition to Europa. No zombies though.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:17pm
coelacanth:

Brian Thank you!
i believe it's a thrush, but i don't know what kind.
  4:17pm
Robert:

I've thought sometimes about what Fabio just said. If there were no radio or Internet, these guys would be doing something like their programs, but just for themselves & a few friends getting together occasionally.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:18pm
Caryn:

Of course, Arthur C. Clarke had both gaseous aliens living on Jupiter and seaweed creatures living in the oceans of Europa in 2010, but the movie ignored those bits.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:18pm
Stepchild, Metuchenite:

Ike, you are so right!
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V Priceless:

@ Caryn: apparently Callisto has an ocean too, so I'm learning. Fascinating stuff.
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Carmichael:

Hi everyone. Since we're taking longevity role-call, I have been listening to FMU for almost exactly 20 years.
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Rev. Turnip Druid:

FOKES!
Jeezus I swear to gawd, I'll get my pixel heart ASAP.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:21pm
Caryn:

Speaking of "didn't need to be remade", the Blade Runner reimagining/sequel/whatever is annoying me.
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Rev. Turnip Druid:

HEY WOW, two of my favorite human beings on earth, co-hostin'!
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chocolate monk:

it was paul Hession, Fabio
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βrian:

Say, how long has WFMU been streaming? It never existed before that point — in my particular reality, anyway.
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TDK60:

Old topic; I still listen to WBAI, depends on the show.
  4:22pm
Dean:

Cecil Taylor
  4:23pm
joe:

Steve Noble. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/steve-noble-mn0000784567/biography
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northguineahills:

@Rev: If the galaxies align correctly, I'll have my heart come May. Things look optimistically in that direction.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:24pm
Polyus:

Pretty much any copy of the Solaris book you find used will have a soft-focus makeout scene from the Soderbergh remake on the cover.
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βrian:

@NGH: which country must your spouse renounce?
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northguineahills:

@Brian: I was able to stream a crappy tinny WFMU stream only from my office in FL in 1998 (b/c my apt didn't have the bandwidth).
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:27pm
coelacanth:

speaking of wfmu history, i've yet to know of anyone remembering Paul Cavenaugh or "The Immigrant"... they were 2 of my favorites and i have many cassette tapes of those two.
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TDK60:

I detest those gadgets at concerts. I hate dodging gadget-maniacs on the sidewalk. It's makin' me toxic.
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d¢ pät:

Here's the best: at museum, everybody, EVERYBODY there, walks up to paintings takes a picture, then walks away without looking at the real thing. I still can't believe I saw people doing this.
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northguineahills:

@Brian: Mexico, although we're looking into options where we can both get US/Mexican citizenship down the road. It's nice to leave all options available.

1998, damn, I was still an undergrad, a working full time office job for on of my majors.. Now, after grad school 15 years ago, I'm out of work doing odd jobs, that how the dice rolls some times.
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βrian:

What's with these recidivist pledgers? How do they *do* it?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:31pm
Polyus:

No kidding, pat. I have seen it at several museums.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:31pm
common:

just saw some a sasha's work at my job today.
  4:32pm
GGG:

Sasha Grey, fake DJ musician, please...
  4:32pm
Ike:

eHarmony is crypto-Christian -- bleh!
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northguineahills:

I cannot into grammar today, yeesh!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:32pm
Stepchild:

I don't remember the year (1984?) when I first listened to WFMU, but I remember the show: Drunken Brawl Music!!
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βrian:

@common: Really? Are you a GOP staffer?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:34pm
coelacanth:

this year there's no black woof-moo shirt,though, and mine has disappeared.
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common:

@brian: ha! nah, just work in a porn warehouse.
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βrian:

"I don't remember the woman's name, and I don't remember the wine. But the radio, ah, the radio was WFMU?"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:35pm
Caryn:

@ngh: no kidding. I had more steady work and better incomes between the ages of 15-27 than I do now. And since you didn't accumulate any pension under the age of 23 in those days, my most lucrative job years didn't accrue me much in the way of a pension. *sigh*
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:35pm
coelacanth:

i never got that!
...KEN!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:36pm
common:

with you and ngh, caryn.
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TDK60:

Polyus & DC Pat. True, I was at the Metropolitan Art Museum the other day and saw folks taking quick photos like that. I did take my camera and took some shots of fave paintings. But I also sat there and stared at them for several- -to -15 minutes.
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βrian:

Brooklyn, Michigan.
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conkrete dawg:

Brooklyn, GA
  4:39pm
joe:

@dc pat I have to admit my guilt to taking photos of the Dalis in the met museum of art.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:40pm
coelacanth:

why would someone bother? looking at a photo of a painting is not the same. i think it's analogous to people having enormous song collections in their "devices"- just so they can say they have it. (most people.)
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northguineahills:

@Caryn: I haven't had a job that actually paid into a pension for the last 5 years (everyone just subcontracts freelancers anymore). I just liquidated my last retirement fund to help pay for a lawyer for our immigration interviews (and, living expenses, since I'm barely working now). That said, my former job from 15 months ago, asked me to interview in two weeks to work on the same project that was defunded. The positive, they offered me more $.

Odd coincidence. I did my BA thesis project on predicting lake flooding and drought conditions due to increases in suburbanation on a Lake Brooklyn in Clay County, FL. Two years later, I moved here.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:44pm
coelacanth:

i feel there's nothing wrong with taking pictures of art, so you can reflect on what you've taken in at the museum.
that's different than doing it instead of...
  4:44pm
joe:

mind you I spent a good half hour with each painting before I took the photo.
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Rev. Turnip Druid:

HA! Coulter was my gateway DJ, in 1997...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:45pm
Polyus:

I get the impression that it tends to be tourists who are trying to see everything they possibly can in the limited time they have. So I can understand where the impulse comes from. That's why I make sure to set aside enough time.
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northguineahills:

My parents and wife get mad at me for never taking pictures. It's sort of a problem for this immigration interview we have, but my attitude is, if you have a photographic memory, why take pics? Plus, I like the subjectivity my memory colors said pictures.
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Cecile:

sad news from korea is an old blues song.
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Polyus:

Or. . .sometimes a piece of art moves you enough that you want to study it further at home, as joe says.
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northguineahills:

Monica was the first dj I heard live (I believe, the subjectivity of my memory is fuzzy).
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Caryn:

@ngh: fortunately, whenever I get brief freelance work, I can pay into my pensions. Except when the job is really small. Which is a lot of the time. So my pension statement has a nice list of jobs I don't get a pension for because I was too young, and jobs that I don't get a pension for because the pay was so small. My actual accrued pension is about 25 bucks a month right now! What with those lists, the pension statement is just a slap in the face.
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coelacanth:

Polyus you're probably right.(on both points)
...and joe is innocent!
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Polyus:

I did get a kick out of everyone getting their pics taken next to Starry Night at MoMA the one time I was there.
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Caryn:

I've once asked a relative to take a pic of one particular painting that I loved at a modern art museum in the Netherlands. But I think there's a difference between taking pics of a limited number of works that you really like, and just pointing and clicking your way through a gallery without actually looking at anything.
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joe:

here is the great Radio Alphabet book that Irwin oversaw the cleaning up of an rebranded for WFMU. https://archive.org/details/radioalphabet00colurich
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TDK60:

I started with WFMU so long ago, I forgot the names of DJs! Was there a Larry?
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Tony:

I take pictures of sculptures in museums sometimes since they are 3-dimensional and the context in which they are displayed can make a difference. But I don't get taking pictures of paintings. Surely you can just find a picture online of any famous painting that you would find in a major museum?
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Jherweg:

I almost died from sleep deprivation after staying up all night with with Berger and then going straight to work for 15 hours....I am dying for WFMU......and i LIKE IT!!
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northguineahills:

@Caryn: That sounds good! I'm looking into doing just that if everything works out. The working from out of town looked less attractive due to these immigration interviews. Everything was smooth sailing until 3 years ago.
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Caryn:

I'm a relatively recent WFMU convert. Was first introduced to the station during the Marathon in 2000 or 2001. Patton Oswalt was encouraging people to pledge, so I tuned in, liked what I heard, pledged, and that was it.
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coelacanth:

i don't recall which names were first for me,but Mr.Berger goes back at least almost as far as i do...he did not do a metal show.
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V Priceless:

@ Polyus: sometimes a piece of art moves me to the point of wanting to move it out the back door, and directly to a wall at my place! : )
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JakeGould:

Regarding taking pictures at museums and galleries, I went to a few art fairs in NYC recently. Those things are so crowed sometimes the only way you can ever “make note” of a picture is to take a pic. I’d say for every 10 works I take pics of, 1 or 2 of them I will stop to take it in. The rest are mildly interesting and it’s better to make some note of the work than wonder years later, “What was that one thing?”
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JakeGould:

Also, most museums ban photos due to rights restrictions. So many times you see people taking quick shots to elude security guards. Very common practice.
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Uncle Michael:

I have photographed art in museums that's not famous enough to find online..and the exhibit card, for reference. Anything else is a concern for proving you've been there yourself. I hate crowded museums altogether, with or without cameras. Shuffling past art like a cafeteria line...I hate it so much. I only go to small exhibits on weekdays. No more blockbusters for me...ever. With cameras is generally worse. People jockeying for position. Ugh.
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JakeGould:

I never met a four. But I have met a few eights and nines.
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Tony:

The first show I remember hearing on WFMU in 1994 was a DJ who has long since left the airwaves. I want to say he went by Jim C. He played mainly instrumentals on his show. Other gateway DJs were Dave Mandl, Bryce and Donna. And of course eventually I discovered Fabio.
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Looms:

DON'T BACK DOWN!!!
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Jherweg:

No retreat!! Raise the GOAL! There is going to be an avalanche of CASH a comin!!
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Cecile:

He directed Pineapple Express!
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V Priceless:

I hear you, Uncle M!
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JakeGould:

@Jherweg: You and William Berger need to do some show together. 1 hour talk. Done.
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Jherweg:

What about Herschell Gordon Lewis guys?
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JakeGould:

Honestly I like films, but I remember seeing “George Washington” when it was David Gordon Green’s big deal. Rented it and the lady at the video store gushed, “Wasn’t it great!” And I said… “Not really… It kinda wasn’t…”
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Caryn:

@UncleMichael: exactly. The one pic I've had taken was from an artist I'd never heard of, and a painting most people seemed to ignore.

Photos I can live with, but the people who insist on using a flash even though there is a HUGE sign right above the painting saying "No flash photography" and a guard telling them not to use a flash because the old painting can be damaged by exposure to the flash. Take a pic if you will, but if it says "no flash" then no flash, forchrissakes!
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Polyus:

Plus if you take pictures of the art, the museum can't sell you a $65 souvenir book at the gift shop.
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JakeGould:

“Plus if you take pictures of the art, the museum can't sell you a $65 souvenir book at the gift shop.” That has far more to do with it than “damage” caused by flashes. I assure you as someone who has worked with conservators about this…
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Polyus:

@Jake - sorry, bad joke. My gf is a guard, so I know the story as well.
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JakeGould:

Art gets slowly damaged more by humidity changes and the dust/lint of humans walking by than a flash.
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Uncle Michael:

In truth, the flash does no harm. That's pretty much a crock. The problem is the flash is intrusive on other people's experience.

Jake slipped in with a similar point.
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JakeGould:

Also, 99% of people who have cameras with flashes have 100% no idea how or when to use one.
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Caryn:

@JakeGould: true, but when there's enough light to take a pic without a flash, and they're fine with you taking a pic as long as you don't use a flash, then I just don't see the point in using the flash just for the heck of it.
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Uncle Michael:

So true.
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Jherweg:

PLEDGE PLEDGE PLEDGE PLEDGE PLEDGE PLEDGE!!!!!!!
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coelacanth:

Tony, i remember a Jim -but it may've been Jim Price. he goes back a way.
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JakeGould:

Also, the biggest threat to art conservation comes from the artists themselves. Someone go back in time and tell Picasso to stop using housepaint. Or tell Francis Bacon to not use the untreated backs of the canvases…
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Uncle Michael:

Nothing like a stadium full of people taking flash pictures that have no effect beyond 20 feet.
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mjgoins:

What is this heavy jam?
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TDK60:

Some of my museum photographs were also of other things inside the museum: an interesting stairwell with varied light. Etc.
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coelacanth:

U M -they get some nice shots of the backs of peoples' heads though!
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Dean:

I once heard Voice Farm play at Madame Wong's in LA's Chinatown. They took flash Polaroids of the audience. If I'd been on the ball, I would have posed as an etiolated Mona Lisa.
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TDK60:

Uncle Michael. True! That happened at Shea Stadium Beatles show, 1965. Thousands of flashes every few seconds. Psychedelic.
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Bas NL:

What a great track by Peron/Liles!!
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Jherweg:

That was fantastic!
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JakeGould:

@UncleMichael: Homer used flash photography to stop robots in that Simpsons episode based on Jurassic Park.
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Uncle Michael:

Try telling Beatles fans about the inverse square law of light...just try.
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Jherweg:

Bas NL has great taste in WFMU shows.
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coelacanth:

i can totally see taking pics of sculpture though...to take home and create a new 2-d art.
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Caryn:

@JakeGould: yeah, da Vinci was a genius. But his desire for a specific effect on The Last Supper meant that the work was pretty much a wreck by the mid-16th century...
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JakeGould:

@UncleMichael: What insanity it must have been to be in Shea Stadium with gajillions of teenage girls screaming. Nobody heard the materials.
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Uncle Michael:

They were scared by the flashes!
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northguineahills:

When I go to most museums, it takes me about 2.5 days to go through them all, just to absorb what's there (for large ones), I still let my wife take the occasional pics, usually for installations.
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Dean:

@UM: Isn't that what "The Inner Light" is about?
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JakeGould:

“Nobody heard the materials.” Uggh! Spell check… THE BEATLES!
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Marcel M:

Rhino records is def still there! I play up there a lot.

Hello all. FABIO!
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coelacanth:

rhino is still there- on church street,not main street.
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Ralphine:

I took a picture of Max Ernst's "Capricorn" sculpture at the National Gallery when I was in high school 'cause I didn't know if I would ever make it to Washington again.
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Caryn:

@JakeGould: well, their songs were their material, so it works.
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Cecile:

lay off those jazz cigarettes, wm.
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steve:

i still see the Rhino owner at the rec fair every year
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dale:

at what point do pre-pledgers get in on the swag drawings? or were we all in the first drawing.
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Caryn:

@dale: I think it's the first drawing, if ever.
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Cecile:

ren fest
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Jherweg:

Wm is into L>A>R>P>!
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JakeGould:

Live Action Role Playing: LARP
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coelacanth:

Marcel, are you in a band? where do you play?
we may have met!
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TDK60:

I was there (Shea) and you could hear, a bit.
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Bas NL:

@Jherweg: It's.. kind of easy listening to WFMU?
I found WFMU through Live365 at the time. It learned my taste and after a couple of weeks the tens of thousands of suggested stations had reduced to one: WFMU ;)
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Marcel M:

Since the yee ol' days of Television
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JakeGould:

Scatman Crothers.
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Polyus:

No flies on William!
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V Priceless:

Miller Place is eastern Long Island
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barney.grubbs:

I am but an accidental lampooner.
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Bryce:

look out, fabio

youtu.be...
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JakeGould:

“Barney Miller Place” was a mid-season replacement that went toe-to-to with “Archie’s Place.”
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coelacanth:

i had a date in little falls once. i met her at maxwell's. it wasn't great!
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V Priceless:

@ Bryce: where did you find those 'Game of Thrones" outtakes? Wow
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steve:

that is one classy ren fair video
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Uncle Michael:

Foe me, being in the same comments as Bryce is like being on the dark side of the moon.
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Jherweg:

Turn your hat around like "Lincoln Hawke" and take it OVER THE TOP.
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northguineahills:

Someone win the Holy Mountain sndtrk, please!
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V Priceless:

@ UM - maybe 'Journey To The Far Side of The Sun'
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Caryn:

I do love the ladies applauding the victorious LARPer. Some may call that guy a virgin nerd, but he's so getting laid that night.
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ted:

going to see Holy Mountain here at a theatre in Toronto tonight....very cool
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Sem Chumbo:

*Don't lightning bolt me, bro.*
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RZ:

Love Santa Sangre & HM. His new movie is really good, too! Jodorowsky pretty much rules.
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V Priceless:

haha Sem - nice one!
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Marcel M:

I mean then you could call Bushwick Queens. And it aint!
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Cecile:

did you just sing part of Al Stewart's On The Border, Wm?
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GGG:

Dude, Ridgewood is fucking Queens. Please don't be a new jack about this, you know better, Fabio..
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Marie:

@ bRYce
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDdTB1GzHJw

Watching these makes me feel better about myself.... is that sad?
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Greg from Bloomfield:

Ridgewood NJ aka Upper East Side West.
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Tommy:

Check out Jodorowsy's Dune for an interesting look into the mind of this great filmmaker.
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TDK60:

Well, it's Spain technically. It's Catalonia also, and they have their own language, Catalan.
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ga01:

Barcelona is Catalonia NOT iSpain!!
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Marcel M:

ga01: Not quite yet!
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Dean:

Amo, amas, amat
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TDK60:

Marcel: Not quite *again* yet.
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Dean:

"We gotta protect complete morons!"
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Marcel M:

@TDK60: True, that had it for a bit there didn't they?
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Polyus:

Jesus I was taking a big drink of water when he said that.
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JakeGould:

“I’ve got to protect the purity of my nachos!”
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Marcel M:

they* not that
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ga01:

always been catalonia, the spanish thing?, we'll work it out : )
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Jherweg:

The old staff trick of "I'll pledge to your show if you pledge to mine" I always fall for that!
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Marcel M:

Hehe. Fair enough ga01. Is that where you reside? My wife is from there. Love it over there.
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Sem Chumbo:

*it seems Catalonia wishes to sugar its own churro.*
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ga01:

I'm from there, now I live in Harlem, NY. Salut!
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djelrock:

Catalunya if you are going to be literal. Catalonia is the Spanish word and they don't like that, oh no Señor.
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Marie:

Barthelona! I had a wonderful time there. Met some really neat people.
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JakeGould:

@ga01: Harlem is not a city in New York! Harlem is a part of Manhattan which is borough in the city of New York!
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djelrock:

It'l calling the "Basque Country" Pais Vasco and not Euskadi, right ga?
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conkrete dawg:

Clay!
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djelrock:

Crash the party Clay!
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ga01:

thx JakeGould
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Marcel M:

I thought the same thing about Clay!!!! I thought the music was a joke hahaha.
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ga01:

djelrock: Euskadi is the vasc word.
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P-90:

Clay is NOT "dry" and ironic, he's 100% sincere, that's his secret weapon
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JakeGould:

Clay is anti-Irony.
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Uncle Michael:

It's never occurred to me that people might think Clay's kidding.
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JakeGould:

@UncleMichael: I started using the words “beautiful” and “lovely” non-ironically a few years back because I was getting sick of NYC cynicism. Some people think I am screwing around. Nope. That]s the sick part of NYC: People think anything that is positive is a joke.
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Caryn:

@P-90: true. Absolute sincerity baffles a lot of people, just because people are so cynical that they can't comprehend that someone might be totally sincere about something. A large swathe of movies seems to be based on this premise.
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Marcel M:

Thats the thing I love about NYC Jake.
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Marcel M:

And I just said a positive statement... not cynically... or did I....
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Uncle Michael:

Clay listens to the people he interviews. He's amazing.
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Looms:

Volcano The Bear! I so heartfully love their work.
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Marcel M:

For me it was just hearing the music he played on WFMU and assuming it was a joke. Nothing too deep.
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JakeGould:

In fact I was on the subway and some guy brings his beagle on. And then starts feeding her Cheez Puffs. I just smiled and said, “That is beautiful…’ Because it was/is.
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Marcel M:

Love the pidge
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Marcel M:

@Jake: hahahah... that does seem like a beautiful sight.
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Strength Through Pledging
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JakeGould:

@MarcelM: The thing is I was born and raised in NYC. And you get people moving here who think that being “negative” and “cynical” is what being a New Yorker is. But is has more to do with just being honest at all times. If something sucks, say it sucks… If you say something is nice, it’s nice… Simple…
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Marcel M:

True Jake.. I'm from the area myself. Lots of hacks move here. Lots of cool folks too.
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Greg from Bloomfield:

I tried to listen to Hot 97 on my drive to the train and it was literally commercials for 8 minutes. I had completely forgotten what the outside world was like...
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Rory:

I don't hear music on commercial radio. I just hear shit.
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Marcel M:

Actually the other day, I took stock of my closest friends, and they are all from the tri state area, or another country.
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P-90:

... Spanish station, Spanish station, Phil Schaap talkathon, Spanish station...
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coelacanth:

there's no r & no b in today's "r & b".
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Marie:

Yeah Caryn, and anyone who is sincere a lot is portrayed as being kind of child-like. Shows you the shallwness of much mainstream media. Profit motive =sh*T
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TDK60:

There are some good music stations in the NYC area. WKCR plays some good jazz and classical. WNYU has some out-like stuff or indie rock sometimes. WNYE has some world music/ethnic shows.
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Marcel M:

@Greg: I had a similar experience in a cab with KTU.. they were talking about some product as if they actually loved/used it.. it was crazy. But I guess thats normal.
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Marcel M:

These two are cute together.
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dale:

i cried when the american standards station turned to disney.
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anastasia:

i do have a car, and it does suck parking it in ridgewood. oh cool, i won a cd!
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JakeGould:

@Anastasia: Ridgewood, Queens, NY right?
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Greg from Bloomfield:

Agreed, Marcel– this has been one of my favorite DJ pairings yet!
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steve:

"was he juliened?" hahahha
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V Priceless:

WNYC's 'New Sounds' was always a reliable source for interesting music, going back to the early 80's. WNYC was where I first discovered Joe Frank, too.
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Marcel M:

Yeah RW is rough for parking... Bushwick is okay but getting worse and worse.
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Uncle Michael:

Popeil Pocket DJ
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TDK60:

Fabio's co-host sounds like the beer has taken effect.
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Dean:

Ron Popiel is among the quick.
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dale:

i thought that was funny too - fabio probably only remembers the pocket fisherman
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Rory:

Hey Wm., bring the Pidge back to the Castle.
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coelacanth:

tupac was julienned...now he's tenpac.
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Dean:

Beer with a straw? Now that's funny.
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dale:

fabio - remember 'get your jimmy thicker, with colt malt liquor?'
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barney.grubbs:

looks like it was midnight dragon. the ad is down the page here: faithfulreaders.com...
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djelrock:

Yup. I believe you. You'd only c those in the hood. Just like the courveisier ads.
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Dean:

Midnight Dragon: http://bit.ly/1GxavOA
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Guido from Cologne:

Another version of the poster,
but anyway:
kihm7.files.wordpress.com...
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Caryn:

That was an ad for Midnight Dragon
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roland:

I remember that "suck on this" poster
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Uncle Michael:

Poster:

kihm7.files.wordpress.com...
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JakeGould:

@barney.grubbs: Yes! kihm7.files.wordpress.com...
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Dean:

https://kihm7.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/ml-poster-suck.jpg
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Uncle Michael:

Googling fiends!
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JakeGould:

And the feminists shot the ad down. Bummer! books.google.com...
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Dean:

Actually, I remember the URL from a couple years ago.
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Uncle Michael:

Great show guys...heading for the car.
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barney.grubbs:

I don't remember seeing the ad on the west coast, but I can remember the sickly sweet flavor of the stuff. Only Laser malt liquor was nastier.
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Cheri Pi:

Midnight Dragon was my college beer!
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JakeGould:

The backstory is pretty funny, “Of course, one cannot discuss sex and malt liquor without a bow to Don Vultaggio and John Ferolito. These two young men from Brooklyn came up the hard way. After high school, they scraped together $200 and bought a VW bus to deliver beer to places avoided by timid truckers, stores in neighborhoods like Crown Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant. By 1982, the pair had 25 trucks and a decade of experience delivering refreshment in these less than pastoral settings. Vultaggio and Ferolito learned what their customers wanted because they were on the street with them every day.

One day they asked themselves why they were delivering other people’s beer when they could contract to brew their own and profit as both wholesalers and brewers. In 1986, they formed the Hornell Brewing Company and introduced Midnight Dragon Special Reserve Malt Liquor.

What they lacked in marketing power, they made up for in audacity. Their first poster featured a woman sipping Midnight Dragon through a straw. The caption read, “I could SUCK on this all night.”

You didn’t need a gypsy to read those tea leaves. When women’s groups protested, Ferolito told the Wall Street Journal, “Real men like sex and sex sells beer.” In fact, 22 separate groups protested the poster. Propelled by its notoriety, Midnight Dragon sold like hotcakes with malt syrup. As a cultured touch, its cans and bottles were emblazoned with an elegant crest and Latin inscription, “Epulis Accumbere Divum” (line 79 from the first book of Vergil’s Aeneid, “To recline at the feast of the gods”). For those eager to recline, Vultaggio and Ferolito delivered their new brew by the truckload — three million cases of Midnight Dragon annually.”
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Cecile:

bye! Go sober up, Wm.
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coelacanth:

still? my father used to get that home liquor- well,everything.
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northguineahills:

@Jake: I use fun, beautiful, and other adjectives and a lot of pretentious assholes get offended, b/c they think I'm being sarcastic, when I'm being genuine.
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Caryn:

@barney.grubbs: on that page you posted, for some reason the tag line of "Open up! with... Budweiser Malt Liquor" seems totally dirty now.
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JakeGould:

Honesty is a powerful weapon. <-- Future inspiring camp counselor.
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redkayak:

Look at the bright side: if you bat .470 you're in the Hall of Fame :)
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Congrats, Cheri Pi!
  5:59pm
cheri pi:

yay
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JakeGould:

@northguineahills: To be fair, when I have been pushed into a corner—sometimes physically—by an a-hole I will just say, “You are so fucking cute!” and squeeze their arm. No more effective way to defuse an a-hole than by acting like a sitcom ditz.
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50%!!!
  6:00pm
JakeGould:

The glass is 1/2 full.
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dale:

poop - one year i won something on fabs show. it's been downhill since.
  6:02pm
JakeGould:

Strength Through Failure, Dale.
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dale:

HAH - you funny.....
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northguineahills:

@Jake: At this point in my life, I'm pretty sure I'm a sitcom ditz.
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